German Depth study

Weimar republic
1. November Criminals
  1. signed treaty of Versailles and "stabbed the German people in the back"
  2. President (Jewish) Friedrich Ebert
    1. Hitler used this to say that Jews were traitors to Ger. and are stealing all the German people's jobs and money
2. treaty of Versailles
  1. lost land to Bel, Czech rep, Poland, Den
  2. armed forces limited to 100,000 men, 6 battleships and no planes and subs
  3. reparations 6600m marks (6.6 billion marks)
  4. not allowed to join league of nations
Hitler's rise to power
1. control
  1. SA
    1. Ernst Rohm was getting too powerful
    2. Strong armed (intimidated) people into voting for the Nazis
    3. getting too powerful as a whole wanted to be generals of the regular army but Hitler wanted to have complete control so killed the in the night of the long knives
  2. SS and concentration camps
    1. Jewish people, Disabled people, Black people, Asian people
  3. night of the long knives June 1934
    1. Hitler, goering and the SS killed all the SA leaders including Ernst Rohm
2. Reichstag fire
  1. Marinus van de lubbe
    1. communist
      1. Hitler said that communists were against Germany
  2. led to enabling act
    1. enabling act allowed Hitler to pass any law he wanted
      1. banned all political parties so only Nazis could be voted for
economic depression
1. Gustav Stresemann
  1. Organised Dawes plan (bit loans), Kellogg Briand pact (cant remember need to find out), Locarno treaty (lets Germany join the League of Nations
2. 1929
  1. wall street crash
    1. led to german economic crash as Stresemann was using the Dawes plan to get bit loans from america to help pay off the reparations of 6.6 billion marks set in the treaty of versailles

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